Conscience is nourished by the development of character and emotional intelligence and strengthened by knowledge.
Conscience education starts with the ability to empathize. Through empathy we can see the impact of our actions. Individuals who do not have the ability to empathize, who are far from moral values, who have not developed a sense of guilt and compassion, lack responsibility. People who lack compassion never regret their actions. This sense of responsibility is, first and foremost, responsibility for one's own life and the impact on others.
The healthy development of this sense of responsibility requires the individual to discover right from wrong, good from bad through the examples he/she sees at home, at school and in the social environment. The individual develops his/her behavior by adapting it to the education he/she receives and the events in society.
In individuals who develop a sense of guilt, conscience training has begun, because guilt puts before us a conscience that comes with regret and writhes with torment.
The feeling of regret, which develops with the ability to empathize, shows that the action does not comply with ethical values. In this case, the individual develops a sense of shame along with guilt and realizes himself/herself emotionally. He activates the control mechanism with his emotional intelligence. This will not be a shame that intimidates him/her, but an emotion management that develops conscience education.
However, the sense of being able to do feeds the belief in oneself and this is of course the key to success. However, with the wrong education given in childhood, the individual feeds his/her impulses with unethical behaviors that he/she sees around him/her. This can cause the “impulse” fueled by the feeling of being able to do something to turn into an uncontrolled monster. And this monster most often emerges to commit murder.
In this transformation, parents' choice of toys is the biggest factor feeding the impulse.
While boys grow up with toy guns and war scenarios instilling the “urge to kill” with a sense of ruthless destruction, girls grow up with compassion for their dolls, which develop the “maternal urge” at an early age. While girls are instilled with compassion, boys are instilled with the sense of being tough and ruthless, of “being able to do”, with the addition of male privilege. The strong wins, the strong destroys, the strong survives. In short, on the one hand, conscience is trained, while on the other, impulses that dull or even completely destroy conscience are developed.
In all societies, “male privilege” is an incurable wound in every field. With such a culture of privilege, individuals who do not develop self-confidence and lack the emotions that nurture conscience develop a sense of revenge. These individuals both perceive everything as a threat to themselves and, since they lack the emotions that nurture conscience, they put aside self-evaluation (conscience) in favor of the urge to kill. And this time it is not a child but a machine of destruction.
The urge to kill by individuals raised with an excessive sense of masculinity and the right to kill created by male privilege has led to the massacres of not only women, but also the weak (children), innocent trees and animals since creation. In other words, all innocents are slaughtered by individuals who are not instilled with a sense of guilt and remorse.
If we consider the cases only as “femicide”, we cannot examine the real issue, which is the necessity of conscience education. The main problem in all murders, not only women's murders, is the issue of morality and conscience; it is the inability to control one's self, which arises from the male privilege that is instilled.
It is not the right to kill, it is the right to live; it is the problem of the impotence of those who do not know that this is the real power.
Conscience is the foundation of humanity. Man can only nourish his conscience with his heart and mind; without conscience, evil is inevitable. And evil makes people sick. If we do not want a sick and monstrous society, we must first teach our children the components of conscience education: empathy, compassion and moral values: guilt and responsibility.